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From: Tim Rightnour <root@garbled.net>
To: Bill Sommerfeld <sommerfeld@orchard.arlington.ma.us>
Subject: Re: [secure@FREEBSD.LUBLIN.PL: FreeBSD (and other BSDs?) local r
Cc: tech-security@netbsd.org, Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>,
        "Todd C. Miller" <Todd.Miller@courtesan.com>


On 27-Aug-99 Bill Sommerfeld wrote:
> I think coredumps through symlinks are dangerous in general and should
> just be disabled.

Just a data point.. but I found core-dumping through symlinks to be extremely
useful when attempting to diagnose core-dumps on the install floppies.  Losing
that functionality would be unfortunate.

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